Risky Business

We're back after a nice long rest, and boy oh boy did a lot of stuff happen during the break. Adam Boileau joins the show to discuss the choicest selection of news items to emerge over the last six weeks. In this week's feature slot we chat to OJ Reeves about his work in upgrading Meterpreter, the Metasploit payload. There are some cool new features on the way, he'll clue us in on those. This week's show is brought to you by Tenable Network Security . read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB309

This is the final Risky Business podcast for 2013. The show will resume its weekly schedule in February 2014. Oh, and there are still three sponsor slots left between now and July. If you're interested, drop us a line with the contact form... This week's show looks back over the key events and trends of 2013; how media focus shifted from focussing on China's cyber-espionage to the scandalous revelations of the Snowden leaks. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB308

On this week's show we speak to Bromium co-founder and CTO Simon Crosby all about its tech. We don't normally interview vendors about their technology in the feature slots, but Bromium is very interesting stuff. It's all about hardware-enabled task isolation with Xen-based micro VMs. The way they've implemented this makes it quite difficult for an attacker to gain persistence on a target machine. Simon is a very technical guy, it's a great interview and it's after the news. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB307

In this week's show we speak with TrustedSec CEO Dave Kennedy about his testimony to the US congress about the Obama administration's healthcare.gov website. It cost over $600m and it's riddled with infosec 101 bugs. We find out just how bad it is and what can be done about it. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB306

On this week's show, can you have your cake and eat it too? Is it possible to build a usable instant messenger platform that is secure and immune to traffic and metadata analysis? We speak with international man of mystery The Grugq all about creating a platform that ticks these boxes. As it turns out, it can be done. So goodbye Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Skype... hello to something completely new! read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB305

In this week's show Adam Boileau and I take a look at the technology industry's latest response to the Snowden revelations. The pushback is definitely gaining momentum. There's also plenty of bread-and-butter infosec news in this week's show, you can find links to the stories discussed in this week's show notes here . This week's show is brought to you by Tenable Network Security, big thanks to them. And this week's sponsor interview is with Tenable's very own Jack Daniel read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB304

This week's show features a fantastic, extended interview with Howard Schmidt, the former White House cyber security co-ordinator and special Assistant to the US President. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB290

This week's show is brought to you by the fine, fine people at Tenable Network Security, big thanks to Tenable for all its support over the years. And on this week's show we chat briefly with South Korean researcher SeungJin Lee about Smart TV security. They're equipped with cameras and microphones and they're popping up in living rooms everywhere. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB289

On this week's show we take an axe to all the crazy hype around BlueBox's Android research. It's been a shameful, shameful week for the tech media. I half expected to walk outside this week and find crowds of consumers holding pitchforks and burning their Android devices based on the headlines we've been seeing about 99% of all 'droid devices being open to attack! read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB288

We've got a great show for you this week. Mark Dowd of Azimuth Security pops in to talk about the bugs he found in libraries used by secure telephony providers like Silent Circle. They're serious, serious bugs, and they were easy to find. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB287

This week's show is a bit shorter than usual. We've got a discussion of the week's news then a great chat with Brian Contos, the VP and CISO of Blue Coat Systems Advanced Threat Protection Group. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB286

In this week's show we talk opsec with international man of mystery The Grugq . In light of revelations the Internet lounge at the G20 summit was essentially an intelligence collection system set up by GCHQ, we thought we'd look at what travelling diplomats and executives can do to protect their data when entering a hostile environment where all infrastructure is assumed to be controlled by your adversary. There's some great practical advice in that segment, and it's after the news. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB285

In this week's feature interview we chat with author and speaker Richard Thieme about what they used to call the generation gap. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is "Internet generation". Are the ideals espoused by people like Snowden rooted in counter-cultural ideals or are they just generational norms? Are these ideas around online liberty becoming mainstream? Now that we have so many gen-Ys and millennials actually running the information infrastructure that powers our institutions, could we be on the cusp of serious changes in the way the establishment works? That is an interesting chat. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB284

On this week's show we take a look at PRISM, the NSA's recently exposed massive surveillance program. Leaked PowerPoint slides from NSA describe a surveillance system that allows the agency to effortlessly capture a target's YouTube, Google, Facebook and Skype. This has been reported as these companies allowing the US government access to "back doors" on their systems. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB283

This week's show is a cracker! We've got a great feature interview with journalist and author Parmy Olson about what the future might hold for Anonymous. Is it time for the Anonymous brand to be retired? The media has largely lost interest in its activities -- how could the hacktivism phenomenon bounce back to the same levels of notoriety as it experienced in 2011? Tune in to find out! This week's show is brought to you by Senetas, makers of absolutely kick-ass layer 2 encryption equipment. read more [1] [1] http://risky.biz/RB282